2-Letter Words Starting with A

Mince pies and a pint - good and tasty!

Mouth-watering

Quite mouthwatering - but gets a pip in by accident

""Having the quality of desiring gratification; as, appetitive power or faculty. as, appetitive power or faculty.""

Introductory courses (wordplay)

Starters on a menu

Appetize

Receptive audience

They may be upset

They're sometimes upset

Plans are disrupted when they're upset

Life rival (wordplay)

Fruit-and-cinnamon-flavored cereal

Circular kids' cereal: 2 wds.

Nonsense, to fruit-lovers (wordplay)

Served with pork? Nonsense!

A likely story!

Mixers, for example

Electrical devices

Kitchen needs

Fit old man's back caught in elastic

Relevant, appropriate

Relevant program on TV about Blair regularly skipped

Supreme Court justices, e.g

Supreme Court justices, for example

Those taken on a quiet river current over another river

""Subject to appointment; as, an appointive office. as, an appointive office.""

APPOSITE {relevant=adj}

It may be set off by commas

Juxtaposed

Appraisee

They value the program and they up the ante

APPRAISE to set a value on

Increase (in value)

(Of asset) rise in value

Be fully aware of.

Detains suspects

Understands, perhaps wrongly, the object is to get inside

Sugarplum is what one gets!

Worker learning a trade

One is bound to be in training

Was nearly as good as

Came near

Drew near

Nuisance at a phone store (wordplay)

Means of access.

Cowboy, for example, captured by Indians comes closer

APPROBATE Approved.

Approbate

Worthy of being approved; meritorious.

Blue-green beryl

Birthstone for many Pisces

Gemstone a queen pinned to a soldier

Skidded on film of water

Water-skier's next of kin

Boards pulled by motorboats

Motorboat tows

Glorification of a vessel he holds up is so strange

Engraved on copper using resin and nitric acid

AQUATINT to etch using a certain process

""Consisting or conveying water or a watery fluid; as, aquiferous vessels; the aquiferous system. as, aquiferous vessels; the aquiferous system.""

Aquilegia

Positions in ballet dancing.

Persian rug patterns

Ballet positions

ARABICIZE

Arabicize

Arabinose

Aragonite

Capable of being decided by arbitration; determinable.

ARBITRAGE Judgment by an arbiter; authoritative determination.

Same as arbitrageur.arbitrageur.

Arbitrage

Settled a dispute

Resolves, as a contract dispute

Decides to barter, as it is damaged

Determines to get back her support it deserves

ARBOREAL tree-dwelling

Where they might bring back the birch (wordplay)

Flowers that do well among trees and shrubs (wordplay)

Plots of land on which many different trees or shrubs are grown

Virgil's tree of life

Coniferous hedge choice

Ornamental evergreen

Arccosine

High spirits (wordplay)

Most high beings

*High-ranking heavenly beings

Roguish cleric (wordplay)

Cleric ruined chance with Dora

Ecclesiastic next below a bishop

""Pl. archegonia (-n - ) A multicellular, often flask-shaped, egg-producing organ occurring in mosses, ferns, and most gymnosperms.""

Study of past human culture

Prehistoric-culture study

""A small fish (Toxotes jaculator), of the East Indies; -- so called from its ejecting drops of water from its mouth at its prey. The name is also applied to Ch\'91todon rostratus.Toxotes jaculator), of the East Indies; -- so called from its ejecting drops of water from its mouth at its prey. The name is also applied to Ch\'91todon rostratus.""

Real and patchy - crudely typical!

Classic N chapel tray (anagram)

Chat with player when ground's ideal

Original models of sports cars found on bridge

Vampire Aristocrats, in Dungeons & Dragons

Ones making plans

Pritzker Prize winners

Bezaleel et al.

Frame for door or window

Beam resting on tops of columns.

Frame Alistair, vacuously taking tab at party

Archness

""A chief priest; also, a kind of vicar, or a rural dean.""

Trigonometry function

45 degrees, for 1

A fellow admitting misdemeanour finally can't somehow function

Arecoline

Sandy.

Sandy

Areology

People of the pampas

Natives of Cordoba.

Argentite

Argillite

""Pl. argumenta (-t ) Logic An argument, demonstration, or appeal to reason.""

Aridness

Activity for summer (wordplay)

Field of operations (wordplay)

R without an apostrophe (wordplay)

Bearing arms.

Armistice

AROMATIZE To impregnate with aroma; to render aromatic; to give a spicy scent or taste to; to perfume.

Makes fragrant

ARPEGGIATE

Guns of 15th century

Arrearage

Arrestant

Stoppage.

Stoppage

Comes to accept first people on the make

Social climbers

Nouveaux riches

Arrogance

Ones given the shaft (wordplay)

Indian museum display

Old Native American carvings

Arsenical

Artemisia

ARTERIAL a type of {highway=n}

Of or pertaining to an arteriole.

Arteriole

Dodger's skill (wordplay)

Craft making false turns at sea

Edible thistles that may be stuffed

Their hearts are often preserved in jars

Edible flower heads are so thick, oddly

Of Carney's film roles (wordplay)

A tacit rule that's broken, say

Expressing oneself clearly.

Skilled craftsmen

Artiness

Puppetry and ventriloquism, for example

Skillful qualities

Arytenoid

Odoriferous gum resins.

Gum resin used medically

Foul-smelling but safe aid to a curry

Bitter medicine

Asbestos

Miner's disease

Chronic lung disease

Lung disease

Asbestus

Plural or third person singular

A ben scaled could be construed as this

Canes get twisted up at the ball

Coming into prominence

Upper hand

Dominating influence (A, not E)

Candy canes (anagram)

Distributing candy canes with upper hand

Ancestors

Forebears

Ascendancy.

Governing or controlling influence; domination; power.

Ascendent

Carbon tip in abseil device, suitable for climbers

Climbs

Finds out in case star gets worried

Finds out Isaac Stern is playing

Establishes for sure the chump has swallowed it

Austerity of a strict hermit

Discipline of mind and body.

Diogenes belief

Asclepiad

Any fungus of the class Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus.Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus.

Ascorbate

Ascospore

Attributable (to)

The act of ascribing.

Having no evident sex or sex organs.

Ashiness

""A white, nitrogenous, crystallizable substance, C4H8N2O3+H2O, found in many plants, and first obtained from asparagus. It is believed to aid in the disposition of nitrogenous matter throughout the plant; called also altheine. C4H8N2O3+H2O, found in many plants, and first obtained from asparagus. It is believed to aid in the disposition of nitrogenous matter throughout the plant; called also altheine.""

Aspartame

Aspartate

Asperate

Instruments for sprinkling holy water

Implements for sprinkling holy water

""Pl. aspergilli (-j l ) Any of various fungi of the genus Aspergillus, which includes many common molds.""

Asperity

Disparaging remarks about rap session

They're often cast in soap operas

Slurs on a person's reputation

Asphaltic.

ASPHERIC not spherical

Choke (to death)

After wrecking taxi he pays for throttle

Choke, but manage to pay his tax before the end of June

Cruise in a fur, open to attack

Open to attack

Given as seaworthy - but not secure against pirates

Assaulter

Making an assault.

Assegai

Collection (of things or people)

Rally about silver collection

French for "blending"

"Westminster Standards" framers

They come together to put together

Westminster Standards framers

Diets for the party members with seats

Pep rallies

Doctor ambles; she is avoiding hospital gatherings

Gathering son wears same silly flash jewellery

ASSERTED assert

They're said to be positive

Evict from service stations for opinions

Positive statements

Can take stock of pack animals with dark fur

Estimate that can be taxing!

Masses sent abroad for appraisal

Certain tax determinant

Affirm dunderhead always had snacks

Declare that the fool was always feeding

State in which animal always took food

Transferable

Reporter's stint

Task in which worker keeps messing about

Broken-down gents is man's task

Absorb and digest (food)

Take in a smile as it develops

Become part of the prevailing culture

When drunk, can siestas help (wordplay)

One may give this by hand

Help a relative, protected by position

Oasis acted badly in a group, perhaps

Kind of press

Got together, tossing coats aside

Star has business ones

Word in many law firm names

Law firm employees

""Act of assoiling, or state of being assoiled; absolution; acquittal.""

Identical vowel sounds

Stormy seasons can reveal sound correspondences

Smashing on mattress, showing variety!

Classification of chocolates (wordplay)

No smart set would make such a selection

As one might be, following tips resulting in cash hoarding

Promises dashed in University College, fools around

Promises

Star-shaped, as crystals

Needing explanation, perhaps

Marked danger branding a horse

Marked symbolically

Of small celestial bodies

Concerning certain space rocks

Of small planets like Ceres

Knocked out a dishonest criminal

Amazed - and so is the organisation

Left slack-jawed

Staggers, due to ill-fitting satin shoes

Knocks for a loop

Surprises, this season, coming out

Caustic stinger ant outbreak!

Trains excited bloke, 17 (wordplay)

Sharp as wine with added peel, say

Astrocyte

Astrodome

Devices superseded by sextants

Old navigation instruments

Sextant forerunners

Expert on moving house (wordplay)

Charter for 11 (wordplay)

House examiner (wordplay)

""The art of making measurements among the stars, or of determining their relative magnitudes.""

Moon-starer (anagram)

Hubble, for one

One who knows what's up (wordplay)

It's shrewd breaking statue over head

Doctor uses a test involving new insight

Shrewdness

Not regularly shaped

Not perfectly balanced

Like this puzzle's grid

They're approachable (wordplay)

Lines that approach curves (but never touch them)

Asyndeton

Athanasy

Athenaeum

Pl. atheromas or atheromata (-m -t ) A deposit or degenerative accumulation of lipid-containing plaques on the innermost layer of the wall of an artery.

Athrocyte

Atmometer

Feeling blue (wordplay)

Candles create a romantic one

Pervading tone or mood

Reparations for wrong.

Reparations for wrongs

Some religious experiences

Barbarities at, or around, towns

Cruel deeds

Inhumanities

Capable of being fastened

Like Mr. Potato Head parts

Love sent by email (wordplay)

Love sent by e-mail (wordplay)

File with an email

Like some goals

Not so far as a star.

Within reach

Attainder

The achievement (of a goal)

A b-blemish limiting men's achievement

Act of achieving something

Attemper

Good Twitter handle for a seductress (wordplay)

Factor in grading, perhaps

Gate - enact Dante (anagram)

Guests at Blair's ball (wordplay)

Take care of picnic pests (wordplay)

Checkroom employees, for example

Members of the wedding.

They may be unwelcome

Sergeants' commands

Military standings

Ted ate tuna salad, becoming thin

Reduced in strength

Made thin/thinner

Diminishes in force.

Makes thin.

Weakens

Electronic signal weakener

Electric signal diminisher

Device reducing signal strength

""The act of a feudatory, vassal, or tenant, by which he consents, upon the alienation of an estate, to receive a new lord or superior, and transfers to him his homage and service; the agreement of a tenant to acknowledge the purchaser of the estate as his landlord.""

Easy on the ol' windows to the soul

Pleasing to the eye

In good taste

That's ascribed to a TD about a matter of tax

Thought to be by Alfred Tennyson initially, but going in to be tested

Such properties belong at taxes

Skills shown by artiste, but presented awkwardly

Characteristics

Harmonisation needs much attention without having people turn back

Vegetables that might ensure a big stew

Eggplants

One with lots to offer (wordplay)

One has lots to shift!

Man with lots on his mind (wordplay)

Insolent acts